Article October 4, 1952 Issue

SCIENCE PRESERVES THE FACULTIES OF MANKIND

GIRARD F. BAKER

Mary Baker Eddy writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 248), "Love, never loses sight of loveliness." And a few lines farther on she says: "Men and women of riper years and larger lessons ought to ripen into health and immortality, instead of lapsing into darkness or gloom. Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb."

The Bible records instances of individuals who lived more than seven hundred years and even more than nine hundred years. It was said of Moses that at the age of one hundred and twenty years "his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated" (Deut. 34:7).

From a human standpoint the longer a sense of life continues to be manifested the more opportunity there is for the elimination of false beliefs through the establishment of divine ideas in human consciousness. The replacing of the human with the divine strengthens, improves, and increases the activity of an individual. So neither the human being nor his faculties deteriorate through or by reason of time.

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